Welcome! My hope is that my artworks will awaken, in you, the sense of life’s joys and possibilities which I feel as I create in my sun-filled studio in Washington DC. My artworks express my delight in seeking visual relationships and finding new connections within simple geometric shapes. The visual discovery of harmony and symmetry leads to my peace of mind. Then, I have a sense that there is, indeed, order and beauty in this seemingly chaotic world.
Among the artworks on this site you will find drawings created with the difficult and ancient medium of metalpoint. I became fascinated by drawing with metal when I was a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). My anatomy teacher, Paula Gerard, was a master of the technique. I remember holding my breath in awe as she gave us a drawing demonstration using a silver stylus on a prepared ground. The lines were beautiful. I have since explored my drawing ideas using sterling silver, gold, and platinum.
My paintings, drawings, artist's books, and sculptural works have been exhibited in more than 240 solo or group shows devoted to regional, national, and international art. They have been met with critical acclaim and awards.
They are in the collections of 25 museums, including the Art Institute of Chicago; Baltimore Museum of Art; Brooklyn Museum of Art; Carnegie Museum of Art; Erie Museum of Art; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Art, Boston; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; National Gallery of Art (Washington DC); National Museum of Women and the Arts; Nelson-Adkins Museum of Art; Smithsonian Museum of American Art; Museum of Modern Art (NYC); Tate Britain; the Whitney Museum of Art; and the V & A Museum, National Art Library as well as private collectors.
Corporations who own my artworks include: American Federation of Teachers; Capital One Bank; Chicago Board of Trade; Deloitte; Dominion Bank; Encyclopedia Britannica; Hart, Schaffner and Marx; HealthSouth; Howard Hughes Medical Institute; IBM; Rockwell Industries, and Owens Corning.
Academic institutions who have collected my work include: Yale University, Harvard University, Carnegie Mellon University, SCAD (the Savannah College of Art and Design), Smith College, SAIC (the School of the Art Institute of Chicago), and RISD (the Rhode Island School of Design).
I am a pioneer in the genre of digital artists' books. I published "Welcoming Beauty 2" in 2019. The book contains over 50 pages of my writings, paintings, and drawings about various aspects of Beauty. I wrote about spiritual themes such as hope, compassion, love, and more. My drawings are inspired by ancient Sacred Cut geometry, which I fully describe in the book. It can be downloaded from the Apple App Store to an iPhone, iPad, or a Mac computer.
I earned degrees from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (B.F.A.), Carnegie Mellon University (B.A.), and Case Western Reserve University (M.S. in Library Science). I have been a visiting artist at Wellesley College and George Mason University.
Additional biographical information may be found in Who’s Who in American Art. My price range is from $500 to $3,000 (USD).
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